This Oped peice really explains the GOP's war on the voter... New Jersey and Chris Christie
Gov. Christie Doesn’t Want Your Vote
New Jersey’s voter-turnout rate is among the lowest in the country. During the 2014 midterm elections, 30.4 percent of the state’s eligible voters went to the polls. Last week, only 21 percent of voters came out — the worst showing for a general election in state history.
That’s a big reason state lawmakers in June passed the New Jersey Democracy Act — a bill that would make voting easier by, among other things, expanding early-voting opportunities, introducing online registration and, perhaps most significant, automatically registering eligible voters when they get a driver’s license, unless they decline.
Automatic registration, which has already passed this year in Oregon and California, could register many of the approximately 1.6 million eligible New Jerseyans who are not currently on the voter rolls.
It is hard to see how anyone could disagree with making it easier for more citizens to vote, but Gov. Chris Christie found a way. On Monday, Mr. Christie, whose 2013 re-election set a state record for the lowest turnout in a race for governor, vetoed the bill on the grounds that it would cost too much, that residents already have plenty of ways to register and that automatic registration would encourage that boogeyman of modern Republican politics — voter fraud.
Like other politicians who rely on this tired claim, Mr. Christie, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, has not presented any actual evidence of fraud. That’s because there isn’t any. To the contrary, electronic and online registration decrease opportunities for fraud by generating more accurate and updated voter lists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/opinion/gov-christie-doesnt-want-your-vote.html?emc=edit_th_20151110&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45299538&_r=0
